Frogger debuted as an arcade game in 1981, and became a classic. It was a simple concept with limited graphics and no strategy was required, but it was a challenge to a player's timing and quick reaction. In 1998, it was the subject of a Seinfeld episode called "The Frogger." George Costanza found that he still had the high score on a neighborhood Frogger arcade console he played years earlier. He buys the machine, and attempts to walk it across the street to his apartment building in New York traffic, which recreates the game in real life. That is, if you consider a sitcom to be real life. Strangely, filming the scene turned out to be quite dangerous.
Costanza's score on that machine was 860,630 points. That meant something to Frogger players, as no one in the real world had come anywhere close. The Seinfeld episode became a legend in the classic game community, and a contest was held in 2005 to see if anyone could beat it. The game itself became a TV game show in 2021. Did anyone ever beat Costanza's fictional score for Frogger? Yes, and you can read how that eventually happened, along with the story of Costanza's arcade machine, at Cracked.
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